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The Bottlemen

The Bottlemen

Dan Boeckner and Riley Quinn pouring a little bit of maple poison into your brain weekly, here and on Patreon.

Episodes

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Canada Has Still Not Solved Its Nazi Statue Problem

Apologies for the late episode - both Dan and Riley have been on tour, but we've got this one for you (recorded a while back). Contained her...

53:45Nov 27, 2022

2022: Year of the Friend ft. Chuka Ejeckam

Chuka Ejeckam joins Dan and Riley to discuss "The Freeland Doctrine," friendshoring, and the mysterious professor of mealtimes.

54:38Nov 3, 2022

PREVIEW: Birth of a Province ft. Will Menaker

Will "Movie Mindset" Menaker joins Dan and Riley to discuss the 1964 Cansploitation B-movie classic, "The Naked Flame." Get the full episode...

5:26Oct 28, 2022

The Hated Pudface ft. Podcast About List

The PAL boys join Dan and Riley to watch another episode of Canada's favourite show... Robocop, the Robot Cop!

50:39Oct 23, 2022

PREVIEW: Legault Land

Dan and Riley discuss, inter alia, the new Quebec premier, the inability of the centrist party to fight the lurch to the right, and the Brit...

5:50Oct 10, 2022

Mr. Poilievre’s Wild Ride

Dan and Riley remember Canadian politics keeps happening. Queen's Dead, Pierre's in Charge, and our allies abroad are as cool headed as ever...

52:12Oct 4, 2022

PREVIEW: Rock Talk: Indie in the 90s ft. Nate Bethea

Riley and Dan were in the Trashfuture studios last week, and we spoke to certified indie superfan and sometime producer Nate Bethea about sy...

5:42Sep 19, 2022

Are You Crazy Enough To Be PM?

Well, the mad lad did it: Canada's oldest young conservative Pierre Poilievre is head of the Conservative Party. We talk about what makes hi...

58:08Sep 14, 2022

PREVIEW: The Donald Duck Tavern Quadrangle

Dan and Riley are recording together in Montreal for the first time (temporally) and the second time (as far as you know). We discuss the em...

11:29Aug 31, 2022

Austerity Barrage ft. Peter Korotaev

Note: this one is mentioned as the premium but we decided to make it a free one! Peter Korotaev (known by an alias on previous episodes, whi...

58:18Aug 20, 2022

PREVIEW: Operation Take Us Seriously Part 2 (ft. John Dolan)

The War Nerd is back to discuss why Canada can't seem to learn to stop buying the F35, and why the boring bureaucracy of military spending b...

9:22Aug 15, 2022

Fertile Eyes Fertilise Fertile Lies

Riley and Dan speak about the history and politics of fertiliser with Matt Huber, author of Climate Change as Class War . But first, we revi...

52:46Aug 1, 2022

PREVIEW: Tech Won’t Save (The) Bottlemen

Dan is off being a rock star, so Riley and Tech Won't Save Us's Paris Marx take a look at That Rogers Outage and question how "more competit...

6:53Jul 19, 2022

Pierre Poilievre Speaks for the Trees

With Bitcoin done, Canada's putative conservative leader becomes absorbed by the forest, and emerges as an esoteric log-o-crat. Also, we loo...

65:43Jul 8, 2022

PREVIEW: The Tomb of the Unknown Reservist

It's a Canada Day Bonus! Dan and Riley talk about Canada's cheerleading of further escalation in Eastern Europe, as well as going back to th...

5:34Jul 5, 2022

Bad Tweeters Club

Dan and Riley reflect on what the crypto crash means for Canadian bitcoin maxi's like Pierre Poilievre, as well as other scurrilous programm...

56:15Jun 28, 2022

This Pod’s On Fire (ft. Michael Barclay, Arlen Thompson, and Tim Kingsbury)

On this rare Riley-less episode Dan is joined by Michael Barclay, Arlen Thompson and Tim Kingsbury to discuss Michaels new book on the rise...

74:12Jun 13, 2022

PREVIEW: Dan and Riley Get It Done

It's in the title, folks - as the Ontario election comes to a close, Dan and Riley reflect on the musical highlights of the campaign, specif...

4:48Jun 3, 2022

Oh My God They Killed Kenney’s Career

Bye bye to the very nasty Jason Kenney! Sorry the base of hooting suburbanite fascists you created slipped out of your control! Bad luck! Do...

60:10May 29, 2022

Preview: The Nickel Giant ft. Liv Agar

Riley, Dan, and Liv all got nickel poisoning from our deep dive into Pierre Poilievre's long, strange history on youtube. Come for the giant...

5:36May 19, 2022